Letter: Get LaMalfa off welfare, put Denney in Congress

Share this:

I was utterly disgusted to find the most untruthful political hit pieces in my mailbox recently, ones I’m now seeing in television ads.

I recall the lies Doug LaMalfa’s campaign told about others in previous elections, but they are nothing compared to what he is now saying about Audrey Denney. Audrey, whom I know personally, is absolutely nothing like how she is portrayed in these expensive ads, paid for by political action committees. It says she has “San Francisco values,” whatever those are, and that she supports measures that will cost Northern California citizens money.

The facts are that LaMalfa (who has received an average of over $20,000 a month — yes, a month — in government subsidies over the past 18 years) voted for a tax bill last December that will add $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit. That’s about $5,000 for every man, woman and child in California, including interest.

And what do we get for that? A tax break for Doug LaMalfa and his rich friends. Yes, indeed: Their taxes are going down, and ours will go up, and we’ll see huge cuts in Social Security and Medicare to pay for this monster deficit. Those are the LaMalfa values, folks.

Denney is the best candidate to run for anything in Northern California in the 46 years I’ve lived here. She makes LaMalfa look like Donald Trump without the charisma.